Archive for the “Thessalonike” Category
We have already dealt previously here and here with one of the most ill-concieved Skopjan lies. The outrageous claim insisting that the term Macedonia was….forbidden in Greece prior to 1988!!!
One of the most famous Greek orchestras was the “Makedoniki Orchestra”, quite odd for a name if anyone…thinks for a moment the empty claims of the tragically foolish Skopjan propaganda. Lets see now related leaflets and newspaper articles, making also mention to the minister-general administrator of…Macedonia. Notice here Greece used a minister of Macedonia…in other words skopjans want the whole world to believe the Greek state had appointed an official administrator with a…”forbidden” title!!! Of course while dealing with such foolish Slavic propagandistic claims, rationality is nowhere to be found among them!
Tags: 1988, alexander, floros, forbidden, general administrator of macedonia, Greece, macedonia, macedonian, minister, theatre, Thessalonike
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From 1839, the region around Thessaloniki was shown to be inhabited by Greeks, Turks, and Bulgarians. No sign of the Pseudo-Macedonians.
By ChicagoGeorge
Tags: 1839, albanians, bulgarians, greeks, macedonia, population, serbs, slavs, thessaloniki, turks
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One of the less known aspects of the Macedonian question has been the needlessly Cruel methods and Crimes commited by the SlavoBulgarian Komitadjis against the Greek population of Macedonia. The Bulgarian bands had been notorious for their murders and outrages against non-combatants and especially the Greeks of Macedonia. The list is certainly not complete and never will be, since noone could ever count ALL atrocities perpertuated by Komitadji Butchers.
The victims range in social position from the peasant to the landowner and the merchant. A number of priests are also among the murdered. Whole families have been exterminated in some cases while women and children have not escaped from the murdering enstict of Komitadjis. Some of the victims were accused of denouncing the perpetrators of the outrages, and others incureed the hatred of the insurrectionists by refusing either to join the Bulgarian bands or give monetary assistance, but most of those who have suffered death were the innocent victims of a campaign which is being waged neither in the interests of justice nor of liberty.
Members of one of the Bulgarian bands entered the house of the Saramantos family from Babiani. Without explanation or reason given, they murdered Costas Saramantos, his wifein the presence of their son Nicolas and also put to death a nephew of the old man and the nephew’s wife. Nicolas was spared only because the Bulgarian murderers required him to take a message to the brigands’s camp. This is a frequent true story reiterated over and over by SlavoBulgarian inhuman criminals against Greeks.
Below is cited a list of Macedonian names cruelly murdered by Komitadji savages. (Source ΑΠΘ)
Tags: 1897, 1907, atrocities, bulgarians, comitadji, Drama, greeks, kastoria, macedonia, monastir, murders, salonica, serres
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The three peoples in Macedonia with the longest claim to continuity are the Greeks, the Vlachs (possibly descendants of Romanized elements of the original Thracians) and the Albanians who claim descent from the ancient Illyrians.
The Slavs, an Indo-European people originating in east-central Europe, had begun to cross the Danube into the Balkans by the 6th cent AD.
In the 7th cent combined assaults of Slavs and Proto-Bulgarians, a Turkic people from the area between the Urals and Volga who had come via the steppes north of the Caspian Sea, led to the founding of the first Bulgarian state in 681.
In 864, under the direction of their leader Boris, the Proto-Bulgarians converted en masse to Christianity and this greatly helped them coalesce with the Slavs, who had already been converted.
Thus by the end of the 9th century they were as one people speaking a Slav-based language (although modern Slav Macedonians historians in Skopje claim that the Macedonia Slavs have always been a separate people from those in Bulgaria). |
[Hugh Pulton, Who are the Macedonians, page 4]
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| The conversion of the Slavs to Christianity was greatly helped by the pioneering work of two Greek brothers from Salonika, the Saints Constantine (who took the name Cyril on becoming a monk) and Methodius. They codified the Slav dialects of the Slavs Living in the vicinity in order to aid the evangelisation of these people. This was the so-called Church Slavonic or Old Bulgarian , originally written in the Glagolithic script. |
[Hugh Pulton, Who are the Macedonians, page 19]
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| In Yugoslav Macedonia the new authorities quickly set about consolidating their position. The new nation needed a written language, and initially the spoken dialect of northern Macedonia was chosen as the basis for the Macedonian language. However, this was deemed too close to Serbian and the dialects of Bitola-Veles became the norm.(1) These dialects were closer to the literary language of Bulgaria but because the latter was based on the eastern Bulgarian dialects, it allowed enough differentiation for the Yugoslavs to claim it as a language distinct from Bulgarian-a point which Bulgaria has bitterly contested ever since(2). In fact the differentiation between the Macedonian and Bulgarian dialects becomes progressively less pronounced on an east-west basis. Macedonian shares nearly all the same distinct characteristics which separate Bulgarian from other Slav languages lack of cases, the post-positive definite article, replacement of the infinitive form, and preservation of the simple verbal forms for the past and imperfect tenses-but whether it is truly a different language from Bulgarian or merely a dialect of it is a moot point.The alphabet was accepted on 3 May 1945 and the orthography on 7 June 1945, and the first primer in the new language appeared by 1946, in which year a Macedonian Department in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Skopje was also founded.A grammar of the Macedonian literary language appeared in 1952, and the Institute for the Macedonian Language “Krste P’ Misirkov” was founded the following year. Since the Second world ‘war the new republic has used the full weight of the education system and the bureaucracy to make the new language common parlance, and indeed it is noticeable that old people still tend to speak a mixture of dialects which include obvious Serbianisms and Bulgarianisms, while those young enough to have gone through the education system in its entirety speak_ a ‘purer’ Macedonian.
In addition, io the new language, the new republic needed a history and this was quickly reflected in the new school textbooks. Here again bitter resentment was caused in Bulgaria since-the Macedonian historical figures are also claimed by Bulgaria as Bulgarian heroes, e g- the medieval emperor Samuil whose empire was centred around lake Ochrid and Gotse Delchev one of the leaders of the abortive rising of 1903 in Macedonia-Macedonian textbooks even hint at Bulgarian complicity in his death at the hands of the Ottomans (3)
Such a policy needed careful massaging and concealment. AsBulgarians pointed out, in the museum of the SR Macedonia it was not possible to see original works by the likes of the Miladinov brothers, who had been in the forefront of Slav consciousness in the mid-nineteenth century, and were now claimed to be Macedonian as opposed to Bulgarian: in some of their works they clearly stated that they were Bulgarians. Suitably edited versions in the new language were promoted to boost the new line, and similar methods were used for a host of other leaders in the nineteenth century Bulgarian revival process who came from Macedonia. Similar editing was done on the history of VMRO with, so Bulgarians claimed, unnatural emphasis on the thought and activity of the so-called ‘left’ autonomist wing, despite its actually being a small minority within VMRO’ and its views were now claimed to support a Macedonian nationality separate from the Bulgarians(4). |
Language and education (pages 116-117).
By Akritas
Tags: albanians, greek, greeks, historians, Hugh Pulton, macedonia, macedonians, proto-bulgarians, romanized, salonica, skopje, slavs, turkic, vlachs, Who are the Macedonians
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Meanwhile, in Salonica itself, a militant new organization was incubating: in November 1893 the ‘Bulgarian MacedoAdrianopolitan Revolutionary Committee’ was founded by a group of men reared on the ideas of Russian anarchism, and proclaimed open to any who wished to fight for liberation from the Turks and autonomy for Macedonia.
Sofia-based activists regarded it with suspicion and did not trust its commitment to Bulgarian interests.
Eventually the committee dropped any reference to Bulgaria from its name, and it became known simply as the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization [IMRO] with the slogan ‘Macedonia for the Macedonians’.
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[Mark Mazower, Salonica City of Ghosts, page 264]
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The centre of operations was Salonica’s Greek consulate whose elegant neo-classical building today houses the Museum of the Macedonian
Struggle. An energetic new consul, Lambros Koromilas, had been posted there to build up a network of activists and bands.
Patriotic activity was organized through ‘the Organization’, an underground movement led by a young army cadet called Athanasios Souliotis Nikolaides.
His agents collected information on enemies of the Greek cause, and carried out assassinations of leading members of the Bulgarian
community. They also engaged in more peaceful propaganda activities - Souliotis wrote a brochure entitled Prophecies of Alexander the Great which he circulated among the peasantry in a Slavic translation to persuade them that only the Greeks could liberate them from Turkish rule. 
He also tried to persuade Greek shop-keepers in the city to alter their shop signs so that the Greek lettering was largest, placing Turkish and French in subsidiary positions. Greek was not usually set first, and Souliotis thought the change would impress ‘the Slavophones who came into the Macedonian capital from the villages’ and help’Hellenize’ the city. |
[Mark Mazower, Salonica City of Ghosts, page 270]
By Akritas
Tags: 1893, anarchism, bulgarian, bulgarians, committee, greeks, hellenication, imro, liberation, macedonia, macedonian, macedonians, nikolaides, propaganda, revolutionary, russian, salonica, slavic, souliotis, turks
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The outgoing Turk : impressions of a journey through the western Balkans (1897) by Thomson, H. C. (Harry Craufuird)
Macedonian population consisted of people from different races, mostly Greek, Serb and Bulgarian, whose fellow countrymen were eager to assist.
Greek insurgents under the chief Lepeliotis fought with Turks. Notice the mention of Greek villages in Macedonia.
Here we get the info Thessalonike had a major Greek population.
Tags: 1897, alexander of serbia, bulgarians, dushan, greek, greeks, impressions, journey, macedonia, salonica, serbian, serbs, turk, western balkans
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E. G. Ravenstein
Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. 40, No. 3 (Sep., 1877), pp. 433-467
In 1877, one of the most eminent geographers and expert in population migrations, E. G. Ravenstein published in the “Journal of the Statistical Society of London” an account with statistics after years of researches in reference to the populations of Russia and European Turkey. Its quite interesting that Ravenstein’s analytical testimonies refer to Bulgarians and their western neighbours Serbs, Croats, Bosnians and Rascians but didnt found a single “Macedonian”, whike he verifies that Thessalonica and other Macedonian cities had a predominant Greek population. On the other hand its clear, major cities of modern FYROM such as Uskub, Monastir had a predominant Bulgarian population. The Lie of ‘pseudoMacedonism’ started a little later.
Tags: bulgarians, monastir, monastiri, serbs, uskub
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From “Voyage dans la Macedoine” by Cousinery Consul-General of Thessalonike, 1831
Tags: bulgarians, consul, cousinery, greeks, macedoine, salonica, Thessalonike
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Taken from the ‘Encomium of St Demetrios’ written by the well-known fourteenth-century theologian Nicholas Kabasilas Chamaetos.
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| The city [Thessalonike] has many adronments bu the most important one and that which affords in the greatest distinction is its rhetorical force, a characteristic that is admired [there] more than in other cities. This city has such a special relationship with Hellenic speech and is so rich in this grace that on the one hand it is sufficient to secure its own happiness but in addition this city can also impart [this grace] to other cities, transplanting words like colonies founded by the rulers of ancient Athens. Consequently there is none, i think, of all the Hellenes in our empire who does not call this city his ancestor and the mother of his Muses, since by claiming such descent he appears respectable” |
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In 1715 was published in Paris a collection of memorandums by the title “Mouveaux memorires des missions de la Compagnie de Jesus dans le Levant. Those contained accounts of Jesuite missionaries who went to Levant (among them Greece) and most of them took place in 1714.
 
“The city of Salonica is one of the greatest and most famous cities of European Turkey. It has an eftapyrgion, meaning a castle with 7 towers, just like Konstantinoupolis. The number of Greeks is significant. There are also Armenian traders. All these Christians are not more than ten thousand soulds. Jews are between ten to twelve thousands. They are infamous of being cunning. “
Tags: greeks, Jesuit, levant, macedonia, salonica, Thessalonike
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